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Originally Posted by untouchablez
because if your attempting to charge your phone while tethering or being on a phone call, the phone will not charge because both of those activities cause the battery to drain more than what is being replenished by the charger (both ac & usb). it happened to me the first couple of days i had my touch pro. i know it sucks but we just have to wait and hopefully a fix will come out soon.
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I have never had my old Touch die on me when tethered or when on a call plugged in. Either the Touch Pro uses too much power, the charging system has been gimped, or temperature sensor is too sensitive.
I suppose it could be because I wasn't streaming constantly or bit torrenting like crazy while tethered, so it wasn't always at full load. I guess with normal surfing there is enough idle time for there to be charging time. I haven't had a chance to compare NuepowerCPL readings with the Old Touch yet, but with the Touch Pro, when you are using a Data connection and charging, there is a small net loss in power, so the power use is less than the charging. For some reason, when the phone uses it's radio, the charging current drops from around 530mA(plugged into USB connection) down to about 400mA. I don't know why it does this. It makes no sense for it to drop such a small amount of current. It even drops to the same level no matter the charging current (with the stock charger, the charging current input is around 800mA)
Unless the charging system was purposefully gimped to prevent extended tethering and data use. Perhaps someone can scour through the registry settings to see if there was some kind of addition or change to the charging settings. But if it's in the hardware, I guess we're screwed.
-Ed